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Ontological excess and metonymy in early-modern descriptions of Brazil: an amodern para-scientific approach to nature

This essay relies on and furthers a hypothesis advanced in previous research: that the well-known eccentricities to be found in the early-modern corpus of the Portuguese colonizers of Brazil—its references to entities like monsters and demons, its bizarre descriptions, and odd classification systems...

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Pubblicato in:Marburg Journal of Religion
Autore principale: Zir, Alessandro
Natura: Artikel (Zeitschrift)
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2020
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para-scientific
ontolgy
figurative language
Religion
Brazil
analogy
English
Portuguese colonization
words and things
Philosophy and theory of religion
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